The Rise of the People – Out of the Shadow

I like to think this . . . it’s not what our government is doing to us . . . it’s what it is doing FOR us, like those words of Paul Hawken. The time for people to awake and understand what our government has become is NOW . . . we have merely been sleeping.

As our country begins to redefine itself, please to not misconstrue this as an event of deterioration. No, it’s better than that. We are RECREATING our values after living in the shadow of the Reagan Era for 35 years. As we come to understand who and what we’ve been, we come to hard truths and will look at history, the old Cold War and more from a very different light.

Our perceived national heroes may become villains as we understand the propaganda that has basically brainwashed us, the American people. Carter had called Reagan a right wing radical, and he was right. The policies that affected our country related to economy, labor, environment, media . . .were all driven by Reagan and we’ve living with them, like shadows, without seeing them.

I’ve been down this path before. The year was 1981 when I was 13 years old and witnessed a leader take over our country with the same energy as Trump is doing today. It hurt two generations of my family. But, this isn’t just about my family, it’s about our entire country. My story is your story. Today, Trump is merely a reflection of what Reagan did with healthcare, energy, big money and more thirty five years ago. Good people gave up when Reagan bulldozed our country, if not world. And it’s happening again. I have one thing to say – not under my watch this time.

I am no longer that 13 year old child who dealt with blows from that “Hero of the Republican Party”. And I will not allow that to happen again to my country or to my children and future children. There is another way of doing business . . . good business. And I will live the rest of my life with this mission.

Our children, all children in this world, are dealing with a major catastrophic reality – global climate change, ocean acidification and more. It’s time to dream big and act big . . . I advocate a new Cold War. As I said, there is another way of doing business. Just ask me.

Here’s my report from The People’s Summit, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. The launch of The Sander’s Institute. Time to rise and get real. It’s a good organization with fantastic values. Let’s live by them.